Iowa’s prodigious congressional tweeter, Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, attempted to put inflation into terms Iowans and others could understand: via their pocketbooks. "Welcome 2 Pres Biden’s ...

There are different types of inflation that could affect your long-term savings and investments. One such type is called cost-push inflation, which happens when prices go up because production costs, ...

Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and its former chairman, has tied inflation costing households an extra $175 a month to President Biden. That extra $175 a month ...

Inflation simply means that prices are rising. There is only one reason for that: total demand in the economy is greater than total supply. Why is that occurring today? Let’s first make some basic ...

With inflation we seem to have a problem of definitions. More specifically, everyone seems to want to give inflation a definition as opposed to accepting the definition. It’s the word equivalent of ...

Inflation isn’t a four-letter word, but the way that everyone from economists to TV pundits to politicians talks about it, it might as well be. Even if you don’t know exactly how inflation works, ...

Responding to stubbornly rising inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve has pledged to raise interest rates more quickly than expected, which will likely dampen a red-hot housing market. On the other hand ...

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following the September meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at the William McChesney ...

With inflation a meaningful economic factor after a decades-long hiatus in many countries, households need no tutorial on its impact on their day-to-day spending, as budgets are stretched thin by ...

High inflation is usually associated with a strong job market, and vice versa. The pandemic changed that. Prices are soaring at a historic pace, yet labor force participation hasn't rebounded as ...

One of the difficulties in discussing the index-linked market is pinning down what we mean when say a certain rate of inflation is priced into the market. The breakeven inflation rate is (roughly) the ...